Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ..., volume 3
Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ..., volume 3
George Grote
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c, thirty years %fter that of Drake, and about eighteen years after the conspir- acy of Kyl5n, assuming the latter event to be correctly placed B. C. 612. The life of Solon by Plutarch and by Diogenes, especially tho ' Enrip. Hippolyt 957 ; Plato, Bepubl. ii, p 364 ; Theophrast. Characu e IS. *H«rodot.i 60. Digiti ized by Google SOLOK S9 former, are our principal soaroes of information respecting tliit remarkable man ; and while we thank them for what they have told us, it is impossible to avoi...d expressing disappointment that they have not told us more. For Plutarch certainly had before him both the original poems, and the original laws, of Solon, and the few transcripts which he gives from one or the other form the principal charm of his biography : but such valuable materials ought to have been made available to a more instructive, result than that which he has brought out. There is hardly anything more to be deplored, amidst the lost treasures of the Grecian mind, than the poems of Solon; for we see by the remaining fragments, that they contained notices of the public and social phenomena before him, which he was compelled attentively to study, — blended with the touching expression of his own personal feelings, in the post, alike honorable and difficult, to which the confidence of his countrymen had exalted him.
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